Stability of α-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan brain trapping in healthy male volunteers

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1199-1204

  Rosa Neto, Pedro ^a   Diksic, Mirko ^a   Leyton, Marco ^a   Mzengeza, Shadreck ^a   Benkelfat, Chawki ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

11C MT; Brain trapping; PET; Serotonin synthesis; Test retest

Indexed keywords

N METHYLTRYPTOPHAN; N METHYLTRYPTOPHAN C 11; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA-METHYLTRYPTOPHAN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL TRIAL; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 25144451248     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-1829-5     Document Type: Article

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